{"id":571,"date":"2007-09-05T07:20:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T14:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/chinas-lead-gate\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T07:20:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T14:20:28","slug":"chinas-lead-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/chinas-lead-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s lead-gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\nRecalled Barbie Playset<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/barbieplayset.jpg\" alt=\"Recalled Barbie play set due to lead poisoning\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Mattel<\/a> has just announced <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070905\/bs_nm\/mattel_recall1_dc_1;_ylt=Ak_iLJpsuf72_lsuOndE8xoE1vAI\" target=\"_blank\" >another toy recall related to unsafe lead levels<\/a>. Where will this end? I&#8217;m guessing that this is just the beginning of a whole slate of products produced in China being tested and recalled &#8211; we haven&#8217;t even seen the start on the non-toy consumer side.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;m guessing that quality control processes for offshore manufacturing will be modified to look for lead and other harmful contaminents soon&#8230;but for now, beware of all products produced in China because it&#8217;s clear that they&#8217;ve not been testing for lead to date. Might there be an opportunity for a third-party testing company to certify products as lead-free? I&#8217;m thinking yes&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/service.mattel.com\/us\/recall\/K8607_IVR.asp?prod=\" target=\"_blank\" >The list of toys affected by this latest recall is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recalled Barbie Playset Mattel has just announced another toy recall related to unsafe lead levels. Where will this end? I&#8217;m guessing that this is just the beginning of a whole slate of products produced in China being tested and recalled &#8211; we haven&#8217;t even seen the start on the non-toy consumer side. I&#8217;m guessing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}